Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Why and What We Collect--A Tale of Two Barung

Jens Nordlunde · 29th August 2014, 04:24 PM

Andrew,
No reason to exchuse that you have chosen to collect within a relatively 'small' area :-).
So have I, as my wife many years ago explained to me that I should chose what to collect. I had Indian weapons a fantastic saif, and some beautiful shasquas, but the Indian colelction was by far the biggest, so I coose Indian weapons.
To collect weapons from a specific area means, that research is directed to this area only, and it gives you a very big knowledge about weapons from this area. Some restricts their collection even more, to maybe 15th to 18th century, and this gives an even more concentrated knowledge :-).
Jens

29th August 2014, 04:24 PM	#35
Jens Nordlunde Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Europe Posts: 2,713	Andrew, No reason to exchuse that you have chosen to collect within a relatively 'small' area :-). So have I, as my wife many years ago explained to me that I should chose what to collect. I had Indian weapons a fantastic saif, and some beautiful shasquas, but the Indian colelction was by far the biggest, so I coose Indian weapons. To collect weapons from a specific area means, that research is directed to this area only, and it gives you a very big knowledge about weapons from this area. Some restricts their collection even more, to maybe 15th to 18th century, and this gives an even more concentrated knowledge :-). Jens